YOU NEVER DIE

Meher Baba

You are first a child. Then you grow up and drop the body, but
you never die and never were born. In the East, Vedantists believe
in reincarnation, and in a number of births and deaths until one
attains Godhood. The Muslims believe in one birth only and one death
only. The Christians and the Zoroastrians hold the same belief. All
are right. But Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad, Zoroaster, all meant what I
mean by real birth and real death. I say you are born once and die
once.

All the so-called births and deaths are only sleeps and wakings.
The difference between sleep and death is that after you sleep you
awake and find yourself in the same body; but after death you awake
in a different body. You never die. Only the blessed ones die and
become one with God.